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'I say to the Chinese, and I say to the world, Ping-Pong is coming home.' BORIS JOHNSON, mayor of London, which will host the 2012 Summer Olympics, claiming that Britain invented table tennis
Such polar-opposite viewpoints about the country's prospects have been typical for Russia ever since its economy began to rebound - along with oil prices - after the currency crisis of 1998. While some have viewed Russia as a fabulous investment opportunity, many have been put off by the taint of...
Russia could do little to stem NATO's advance during the economic and social collapse presided over by Boris Yeltsin. But Putin's Russia, flush with petrodollars, has re-emerged as a geopolitical player at the same time that U.S. influence has been waning. With the bloodletting in Georgia, the...
I'm not sure what the answer is, to be honest. But I do know this: the anger fueling Russia's behavior now is very real, and I know exactly where it comes from. Just a couple of months ago, in Moscow, I sat in the office of Vladimir Yakunin...
Putin had taken over for the doddering, inept Boris Yeltsin on the eve of the millennium (literally: December 31, 1999) and been re-elected on his own in the spring of 2000. By the following summer, the former KGB resident of East Berlin (oh, how he must pine for the...